The 13 original colonies of the United States were the foundation of what would become a new nation, born from a blend of ambition, conflict and compromise. These colonies stretched along the Atlantic ...

English colonial ambition and the exhortations of the Hakluyts set the stage for England's first lasting settlement in the New World ... In 1619, a Dutch ship that had pirated the cargo of ...

Adventurous journeys to the Earth's most remote and fabled corners, the comfort and ease of an ultra-luxe ship-these are ...

Ships, Colonies, and Commerce," is the phrase employed to describe the long-established policy of England; and when we were dispossessed of our magnificent Colonial empire in America, we still ...